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Mesa Verde National Park Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mesa Verde National Park, United States
Ancestral Puebloan ruins anybody?
Pics and stories to follow. Place where I realized part of what this trip was to be about for me. ...
Mesa Verde
... the long drive to Mesa Verde. We made our lunch at Pagosa Springs before setting off again on our drive. We arrived at Mesa Verde National Park at about 7.00pm. The views of the park as we travelled up the mountains were very spectactular. The lodge was ...
Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde (la table verte) est un site du patrimoine mondial Unesco (pour la list des sites par pays, visitez http://whc.unesco.org/fr/list/ - c'est en fonction de ces sites que nous avons fait notre trajet en Europe). Il s'agit du plus ...
On the Res - Mesa Verde and Monument Valley
... dwelling that requires an adventurous little hike down into the side of the cliff. Nice park, and the only national park devoted to man-made structures. On the way to the Grand Canyon from Mesa Verde, I passed through Monument ...
Mesa Verde National Park
Once we had breakfast we set out to "discover" the wonders of the National Park. Mesa Verde is an ancient Pueblo Indian site in the mountains and is over 7000ft above sea level. The views of the canyons are spectacular. Our first activity was a guided ...
Life on the Edge
... and head on to Cortez, Colorado. Once in Cortez we took a brief stop for lunch and then immediately went to Mesa Verde National Park. This slightly lesser known park first caught my attention when I was taking a U.S. History course in high school, ...
Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde........... Wir sind hoch und runter geklettert und hatten viel Spass in dem National Park. Am Abend sind die Tiere bis zu unserem Balkon gekommen und die Landschaft war oder besser gesagt ist toll. Am Abend hat sich das Wetter meist ...
Mesa Verde
On our way from Moab to Durango, CO, we stopped at Mesa Verde, famous for its cliff dwellings built by the ancestral Puebloans. We had time for a brief hike to Spruce Tree House, a talk with a park ranger, and a drive that led us to overlooks for ...
A Palace in the Cliffs
... playing pool with some Colorado kids while we do the laundry. We also met a family from Cowan - it's a small world. Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado combines fun with the most significant archaeological site in the US. It was occupied from 1 AD ...
Mountainside living at it's best!
Mesa Verde was where southwestern Indian tribes lived around 1200 AD. They moved somewhere around 1275 AD leaving the Mesa Verde area. We had to climb a 30 foot ladder to get to the Balcony House, built and lived in on the edge of Mesa Verde. ...
Jawdropping Cliff Dwellings
... smart shops and SUVs galore. The whole raison d'etre for this overstuffed day was to visit the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park. My first knowledge of the existence of dwellings dating back almost 2 millenia in the continental U.S. was in ...
Beyond the clouds in Mesa Verde
... with the weather up until now, so we couldn't really complain when the morning of the day we had set aside to explore Mesa Verde National Park there was torrential rain and you couldn't see a foot ahead of the car thanks to the fog in the mountains! ...
Mesa Verde National Park
Dernière étape de mon voyage, Mesa Verde; dans l'extrême sud-ouest du Colorado, le plateau de Mesa Verde, qui atteint plus de 2 600 m d'altitude, abrite une énorme concentration 'habitats indiens ancestraux dans des « pueblos » construits du VIe au ...
Trailing the Ancients:MesaVerde & Canyon de Chelly
... ; working together to make a place in the world. Highlights from Mesa Verde: driving the RV up the Mesa, visiting Cliff Palace-it ...
Archaeology rather than geology
Stayed at Cortez, Colorado to visit the famous Indian cave dwellings at Mesa Verde. Another day - another State and another National Park - luckily the US government are promoting the great outdoors to their population and we managed to get free entry. ...
On the road again...
... nouveaux paysages plutot que de repasser par l’Utah. Mais dans contexte, que pensez-vous qu’il soit arrive? "Ah…Mesa Verde National Park est juste ici, on devrait aller faire un tour!" Et comme j’y etais déjà alle, je savais que ...
Cliff Dwellings and Bushes that Growl
From Largo Canyon we headed North to Mesa Verde, home of what are probably America's most famous cliff dwellings. We learned that they were probably built by the descendants of the people who built the dwellings we had seen in Arizona, forced ...
3rd stop
... was a stop wher we went just for the day, at night we headed for Aspen, but we ended up in Silverton(next entry) Mesa Verde National Park was beautiful place where we saw how the natives use to liv e. They had theirt houses cut into the rocks, see the ...
Deep deep snow!
We were up and ready first!!!! Coffee and time to relax before the next 5 hour drive to Mesa Verde still in Colorado.... and its deep deep snow.... so much so the chains had to be fitted to the van..... if I've mentioned its cold before I really didn't ...
Prvni narodni park USA zalozeny na dile cloveka
Mesa Verde - fascinujici stavby indianske civilizace, ktera to tu kolem roku 1300 zabalila a odesla asi za lepsim pocasim. Toto misto si take navzdy zapamatujeme jako misto, kde jsme se snazili udelat steaky na grilu na jedno pouziti. ...
Mesa Verde National Park
On July 12th, I drove 196 miles to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. I took a ranger tour of Spruce Tree and Long House settlements...former home of the Pueblo people for 700 years from the year 6oo to 1300 AD. ...
Ruins and a Long Drive
Today, we went to Aztec National Monument. Guess what? I got another Junior Ranger badge. The ruins were great. We went in some of the buildings and a Kiva. Some of the buildings still had roofs on from the 1200s. There was a ...
Colorado! Exploring Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings
... like the middle of the mountain, we parked, climbing as tourists down a path and in view of the largest portion of Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings, which the discoverers named, "Cliff Palace." MOST awesomely**, our guide lead us down directly to the ...
Ridgway - Mesa Verde, CO
... They both were excited to earn their badges - which is becoming a cornerstone of the National Park visits. Day 2 at Mesa Verde National Park. Unlike all the other days, the day started off quite cool. We participated in another ranger-led ...
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
... bee-line it home and be back in New Jersey before the weekend. I’ll keep you updated. Anyway, after we reached Mesa Verde National Park we registered for a campsite (which is really lovely) and set out to explore the park. Mesa Verde is different ...
Van Dwellers meet Cliff Dwellers
Mesa Verde - several large plateaus into whom's sides ancients built dwellings. We passed through 5 National Park / Recreation areas in one Day - hiking in two and arriving at Mesa Verde. Escalante / Grande Staircase Capitol Reef ...
The Stones Tell a Story if We Listen to Them Speak
... is beautiful scenery and if we thought we could fair the winters it would be tempting to move there. Stop number 2, was Mesa Verde National Park. Home to the Native American cliff dwellings dated from 1200 AD to 1300 AD. Native American's ...
Exploring the Park
... it was time to drive around the corner for a picnic lunch and the kids completed their Junior Ranger books. This was clearly a park where the Rangers showed little to no interest in the work that the kids completed. He simply flipped through the pages ...
New Friends Found at Mesa Verde
October 1-2, 2008 Mesa Verde National Park We had plans to see our friend Mike (from Las Vegas) in Fish Lake, Utah the first weekend in October. We stopped for a couple of days in southern Colorado on our way and camped in Mesa Verde National Park. ...
Mesa Verde
... vorher posten, da wir immernoch kein Handy-Netz haben und auf WiFi in den RV Parks angewiesen sind. Das letzte "Free WiFi" Angebot hat sich als Flop erwiesen - wir hatten keine Internet-Verbindung. Jetzt im Mesa Verde RV Resort dafür um so ...